The name of the book is Wait till Helen comes. The author is Mary Downing Hahn. The book has 120 pages. The type of the Book is mystery and scary.
In the story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell, the character Jeanette makes emotional decisions that led to different outcomes. Her decisions are impacted by many emotions, such as when she is prideful, Cautious, Lonely, Angry, Uncertain, Panicked, and revengeful, as she is led into terrible situations. In the story one can see many terrible instances that were caused by such emotions. For example, Claudette says, “The pack hated Jeanette/
Toni Cade Bambara is a well-known writer from New York City. She was born on March 25 of 1939. The person who encouraged Toni to write the most was her mother. Toni was really smart, so smart that she graduated from high school six months early. She published her first short story called “Sweet Town” in 1959.
Born on May 15, 1967, in Washington, D.C., Hillenbrand looked to many activities to fill the extra time in her day. During school she would write short stories to occupy her in school. After school she would have swim practice. While Hillenbrand was at swim practices her swim coach would tell the team stories. This inspired her to write her short stories.
In the book "Relentless" by Tim S. Grover, the author introduces the concept of a "Cleaner," which is more than just a leader - it's a mentality. A cleaner is the most committed competitor, who strives for an unattainable level of perfection in their given profession. This concept is explored through the lens of various leadership styles, highlighting how a Cleaner leader rises to the occasion in pressured situations, has levelheaded confidence, and leads their peers into the winner's circle. They are characterized by their relentless pursuit of success, their ability to take responsibility for their actions, and their unwavering commitment to their goals. These leaders are not afraid to make tough decisions, and they inspire those around them
In Marilyn Nelson Waniek's "The Century Quilt" there is a diverse and loving home, and a sure symbol of generations of a family and childhood within the blanket. Through warm imagery and reminiscent tone, the measure of this quilt to Waniek's life is illustrated as a profound connection and admiration of her family and a nostalgic escape. The color illuminated imagery draws a relationship between family and love through the quilt. "
In the book The River, by Mary Jane Beaufrand, the young girl, Ronnie learns an Important lesson about letting people into her life. Though the book Ronnie learns to allow friends and family to help her through hard times see the truth. In the beginning of the book The River Ronnie is depressed Karen died and is blocking out friend's and family and it is preventing her from seeing the truth. The first piece of evidence is showing that Ronnie is in shock that she found her best friend dead.
Cindy was in a family of eight and the second youngest of the five siblings (four sisters one brother). She was born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa in Polk County. In 1981 Cindy entered high school and worked hard on becoming a writer for her future. In 1982 her sophomore year, Cindy took a majority of AP English and writing
I’m Helen Hunt Jackson, but I was born Helen Maria Fiske. I was a well known author, novelist, and journalist in the late 1800s. I was a prolific writer and I am remembered primarily for my efforts on behalf of the American Indians. I devoted my life to remedying the injustices suffered by Native Americans. I attended the Ipswich Female Seminary, where I befriended Emily Dickinson and ever since we helped each other in writing and progressing in our poetry.
One of the oldest and most famous suspension bridges in the United States is the Brooklyn Bridge, which spans over New York’s East River and connects Brooklyn to Manhattan. The driving force behind the construction of this iconic landmark is a trailblazing female engineer named Emily Warren Roebling. Emily was born on September 23, 1843 in Cold Spring, New York to an upper middle-class family. She was the second youngest of twelve children, but was especially close to her older brother, Kemble Warren, who enrolled her in a convent school in Washington, D.C. to further her education when she was 15 years old. Emily met her husband, Washington Roebling, at an army camp in 1864 and they were married a year later.
Many immigrants traveled under desperate situations to pursue the American dream. Many authors try to capture those experiences for native born Americans to understand. In the novel My Antonia by Willa Cather, Antonia, a Bohemian immigrant, has to work her way through the American life. Antonia and her family came to America with next to nothing. They didn’t know the language which left them more susceptible to lies.
Traditional poetry is known for being strict in form and often rhyming, as it is apt to have a symmetrical, specific structure; but over time, there is the propensity to break from the orthodox ways for more freedom, thus creating contemporary poetry. This kind of poetry frequently consists of free verses, and is difficult to define because of its many possibilities. Although contemporary poetry does not employ any rhyme or poetic meter due to the use of free verse, contemporary poets implement poetic devices to develop compelling expressions that please their readers. Jane Kenyon, a contemporary poet, exploits various literary devices such as similes, imagery, repetition, and metaphors to communicate personal topics like the inevitability of mortality, life
Jamaica Kincaid was born on May 25th,1949 as Elaine Potter Richardson in St. Johns, Antigua and grew up in poverty. She and her mother had a close relationship up until she was 9, her mother had 3 sons and started neglecting her. She went to a British school and won a scholarship to the Princess Margaret School. At 13, she was taken out of school to support her step father because he’d become sick. To make money for her family, her mother sent her to the united states at 17 as an Au Pair
Written in the 1970s, Jennifer Traig reveals in her humorous memoir how she changed and overcame the mental and social challenges that life threw at her from childhood into adulthood. Life certainly threw her tough challenges in the forms of OCD (obsessive compulsion disorder), scrupulosity, and anorexia. . To say the least, she looked for the devil in every detail believing if she didn’t do something perfect someone would get hurt. Traig begins her book by recounting a memory where scrupulosity took over. Being a form of OCD, scrupulosity makes its “victims” have an obsession with religion, in Jenny’s case her obsession was Judaism.
Betty Smith was one of the most influential writers of her time, and her works impacted American culture in several ways. Betty Smith was born on December 15, 1896 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In Jones’s article (1994), Jones describes Smith’s childhood as “a childhood and youth at once poor in material terms, but rich in experience.” Smith’s father was an actor, but died when she was young, leaving the
